In January-March the Industrial Metallurgical Holding enterprises mined 542 thousand tons of coking coal, down by 28% QoQ. The decrease was the result of the planned disassembly and assembly of machinery at Butovskaya mine and the short calendar period of the first quarter. Berezovskaya factory decreased coal concentrate processing by 6% QoQ, to 644 thousand…

Uskovskaya miners have started digging coal at the long face 50-08. The reserves of the face are estimated at 1.8 million tons of coking coal of the premium GZh grade. Each month the miners intend to obtain some 250 thousand tons of coal. After processing at Evraz factories Uskovskaya mine coal is delivered to other…

The power-generating company Centrenergo has cancelled the tender to buy 700 thousand tons of anthracite coal for Zmievskaya and Tripolskaya thermal power plants with delivery in May-December. According to the company statement, the decision was taken by the management in fear of the price increase in case of exchange rate fluctuations. 2 companies participated in…

Metinvest intends to implement anti-crisis measures at its Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works. In particular it is suggested using iron ore raw materials wastes to produce sinter in view of undersupplies of sinter ore via railroad. “We intend to implement new methods of operation providing for the more efficient usage of secondary materials, thus…

Ukrzaliznytsia intends to send only 7 cargo trains through Kamysh-Zarya – Volnovakha railroad route. “And that’s when we need 18! We have raw materials enough for one day of operation. And we have informed the railway administration”, Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works CEO Yuri Zinchenko wrote on his Facebook page. He believes that the…

Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works has put the ball-rolling mill No. 2 into operation. The mill produces balls of the 4th group of hardness, used by raw material companies in ball mills to grind ore. Wisdri (China) delivered and assembled the main machinery. The new mill has been constructed taking into account the operation of…

ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih is carrying out construction of coking batteries No. 5 and 6. At present the construction of the battery No. 5 is underway. The construction will last for 7-9 months. At the same time the assembly work is being carried out at the coking battery No. 6 to prepare it to reach its…

Kurganstalmost has supplied 2.5 thousand tons of metal structures for the construction of the multi-use complex Lakhta-Center in St. Petersburg. According to the company statement, the total size of the complex will reach 400 thousand square meters, while the height of the central 87-storied building will hit 462 m, making it the tallest not only…

Severstal and Russian subsidiaries of Mefro Wheels GmbH have agreed on rolled metal deliveries in H2. In particular, Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works will supply hot-rolled sheets and strips. Mefro Wheels will make wheel disks from them for Russian and foreign car brands. Last year both sites of Mefro Wheels in Russia received 30 thousand…

The terrorist organization Donetsk People’s Republic, created and supported by Russia, is engaged in preparing Metinvest and Donetskstal companies for operation. Control over the companies on the territory of the Antiterrorist operation was lost on March 15. According to a source, the management of the companies has been given to Sergey Kurchenko, an ally of…

Petr Poroshenko has signed a decree to impose a moratorium on the bankruptcy of state mines until January 1, 2019. The decree prohibits accounts arrests and the procedure of bankruptcy unless by the order of the Ministry of energy and coal industry. Accounts arrests result in non-payment of salary to state miners, moreover coal companies…

Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works has finished the planned repair of converter No. 3 and the continuous casting machine No. 5. According to the company statement, the repairs cost 64 million rubles. The converter capacity is 1.2 million tons of steel per year, and of CCM – 1 million tons. The oxygen-converter shop includes 3…

In May Ukrzaliznytsia foiled delivery terms of iron ore to the Berdyansk sea trade port for short sea traffic to Azovstal Iron and Steel Works. “As Ukrzaliznytsia failed to provide 23 cargo trains per day through Kamysh-Zarya route, we had to look for alternative sources of raw materials supplies. Each of them considerably increases delivery…

The Kirovograd regional administration on May 19, refused to allow the Vostochniy Mining and Processing Works start mining operation within the territory of housing construction. The decision has been taken at the request of the Kropivnitsky mayor Andrey Raikovich. He was against allowing the company to work there, as it did not fulfill its social…

On the annual meeting on May 19, the shareholders of Nikopol South Pipe Works decided to wind-up the company. The issue has been suggested by a shareholder owning over 5% of shares. In February 2007 Interpipe purchased 96.6% of NPTZ for 352.614 million UAH. As of Q1 2016, 96.6% belonged to the Transportno-investitsionnye tekhnologii. Later…

A couple of days ago Donetsk Iron and Steel Works, which was on the list of enterprises, “nationalized” by the terrorist organization Donetsk People’s Republic, created and supported by Russia, resumed operation under new managers. The blast furnace No. 1 produced the first batch of pig iron. This is the first output since the “nationalization”.…

The Aluminum Castings Works in Barnaul has so far been able to sell only 138.7 million rubles worth of assets. The auction scheduled for May 21 did not take place because of the lack of participants. Now the works is on sale even cheaper – at 76.5 million rubles, according to Avito.ru. In March the…

According to Kraft group marketing department director Katerina Makeyeva, the stagnation on the rebars market will most likely persist for a month. The attempts to decrease prices by some trading houses are situational. Manufacturing works will not listen to traders and go on decreasing prices. Price fluctuations on market decrease are in the range of…

Nordgold net profits in January-March dropped by 3% YoY, to $39.8 million. According to the company statement, earnings grew by 17%, to $293 million. EBITDA increased by 10%, to $131 million. The company consolidated debt at the end of Q1 decreased by 3%, to $927.9 million, with net debt up by 15%, to $677.7 million.…

NLMK Group, an international steel company with facilities in Russia, the USA, and the EU, has signed a five-year contract for the supply of raw materials to the production facilities of EUROCEMENT group, Russia’s leading manufacturer of construction materials. The contract, which runs until the end of 2022, covers an annual supply of up to…

Within the strategic cooperation with Transneft, Chelyabinsk Pipe-Rolling Works has modernized its machinery of large diameter pipe quality control. The investments totaled 244 million rubles. “Transneft is one of the key customers of ChTPZ. Taking into account their demands we have decided to modernize the machinery. The project has been carried out without stopping the…

Trubodetal (Chelyabinsk, a part of OMK) has successfully passed the American Petroleum Institute audit. The auditors checked the quality management system according to API Specification Q1, edition 9, and ISO 9001:2008. “Now all our customers working in oil and gas transportation demand international certificates, so each audit is important for us. This is always a…

For the first time TMK-INOX produced a batch of electric-welded stainless (austenitic) steel pipes to be used under high pressure in aggressive environment requiring high corrosion-resistance, the company’s media office reports. Manufacture of new size-types of electric-welded stainless steel pipes along with the regular range is part of import substitutions program. TMK-INOX is one of…